Plantation of paddy for this year has been completed, as per the Department of Agriculture (DoA).
As per DoA, paddy has been planted over 96 per cent of arable land across the country this year.
Of the total 1.37 million hectares of arable land, paddy plantation has been completed on 1.31 million hectares of land this year.
According to DoA, paddy plantation has been completed over 245,391 hectares of land in Province 1 while plantation has been carried out on 362,030 hectares in Province 2. Similarly, in Province 3 and Gandaki Province paddy plantation has been carried out over 102,892 hectares and 104,780 hectares of land, respectively.